I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period of time, and you are only as good as the last contract you have got, as the last job you have done, where the notion of a precarious existence does exist, as it does for a lot of people.
If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.
First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.
When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.
I always thought, as I was growing up, that I'd be married with children. That hasn't happened.
I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.
This is how I am. I'm happy with my friends, my family, my job.
I've met people at the top of companies like Accenture who started off in McDonald's.
I believe most people in their life will fall upon tough times at some point.
We know that children living in a household with someone in work do better in school, have better educational attainment, and are more likely to have a job later in life than children growing up in a home where no one works.
I believe Jeremy Corbyn getting his hands on power is a risk we cannot afford to take.
Leaving the E.U. is an opportunity for our country.
It's important to know what you can do and what you can't.
I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.
It makes my life easier that I don't have to take my daughter or son to school, that I've not got to look after them because they are ill. But then, I'm not nurtured and cherished, so I will seek external love from other close relationships.
For too long, people have had to neutralise or lose their accent out of fear of prejudicial treatment or to fit in. This has then led to a lack of regional accents, which has allowed this lazy stereotyping and prejudicial attitudes to prevail.
People shouldn't have to lose their accents to get a fair crack at the whip at a job or move up within a sector or industry.
Politics is all about trust. Trust is like the soul: once gone, it never returns.
We've got to be as good as our word.
You can't underestimate how patriotic the people of this country are.
